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I remember when I was young, we got like a 2 month stint of Southwest Championship Wrestling and I just thought Bob Sweetan was awesome! Unfortunately Vince McMahon came along and WWF was almost all that was left. Terry Funk vs Bob Sweetan are the matches that Bill Apter would place on the cover!

I really liked the ending here to the Brad Armstrong/Ole Anderson match! I think your tag team division is shaping up nicely and has a good mix of veterans and up and comers. The Midnight Rockers could be something special in a Southern Wrastlin type promotion kind of in the way of the RNR Express.

I just wanted to try and get a better understanding of where people are at in this territorial issue I saw today. I have been asked to move locations twice in the game to allow for new writers and both times I obliged. When I first started in Memphis, I had relationships with both the AWA and the NWA and then went to Mid-South where I was also told that Texas was opened so I ran Louisiana, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Arkansas and Texas. A sort of Mid-South-World Class combo. I joined these two promotions into the USWA and broke free of both AWA and NWA and went independent. Being independent, I thought that restrictions of where to run where kind of lessened and when Gene left the last time, I began to run in Memphis again which was actually a USWA base. Currently I have a Watts-VonErich-Jarrett feud going and am running in old UWF and USWA areas which includes what I said before + Missouri. Am I wrong in my thinking that this game has warped into more national programs and the restrictions of where to run have been lessened especially since we are all recognizing different world champions. If I am wrong and have stepped on any bodies toes, please let me know I and I will back out of any area that you believe to be yours. A venue to me is just a line in my event while I understand that many of you do a much better job then me in giving wins o local talent or pushing certain people who are hot in an area. I also think that since we are a limited group, we try and bring the sport to regions that do not currently have a promotion. I mean in the perfect world, Portland and other great cities would be represented. Maybe we should hash this out and decide where people should be and where they plan to expand if they do.

Some big names here going head to head. Wonder how crazy the Brody vs Bock match would have been. I do think you have some of the most interesting tag teams in the game and find it interesting how much you have them go between singles and tag matches. If you had to rank your teams, who would be your top 5?

You are doing a wonderful job of always giving us an interesting twist to your angles. This makes up a lot for your limited roster and makes it must read each and every week. Keep it up!

Great show for the fans in Columbus. Kamala and Ido was a very interesting pair. Billy Jack for Hercules would be one great power struggle! Wendell Cooley on the rise here with a nice win over Slater.

I might have gone all the way to Japan to see this. So many big names battling each other here. Fun show! The Americans had a little success early but the Japanese with the big wins late would have the fans going home happy and coming back for me.

Love the set up.... Might have to steal something similar. You guys are so good at organization and planning while I always feel lost.

I agree. Piper's Pit was the best part of the WWF back in the 80's. You have some big names on this roster and it must be hard deciding which way to go with things. Great work and I must compliment you on how well you plan ahead.

I might have come across wrong but I meant it as a good thing. It just makes the average fan wonder!

Some great names on these cards! I enjoyed your Cornette interview. Some classic Cornette phrases mixed in there and you were really able to get the point across on how muxh of a little weasel he really was. I must say I am getting confused on all the Machines in the game right now and wonder if we will ever find out who they all are and if they are the same between Lutte and WWF? Maybe you guys have pulled the wool over our eyes and are really working together. Watch out NWA!

I continue to learn as I read your promotion. I find it interesting how you build wrestlers through tag events and still have his team lose but it is just the other guy taking the fall.

Both of those events would be must see TV! Khan and Humongous are great monster heels. I love that pairing. Ronnie Garvin getting paired up with Martel and Wahoo on back to back shows would have been great to see also. Rude seems like he getting ready to take over! I see lots of fun ahead for the AWA.

Austin Idol seems to be making a claim for the UWF title!

MID-SOUTH WRESTLING: 4/21/1985: WTBS 9:05-10:05 TULSA, OKLAHOMA NORTH AMERICAN CHAMPION: HACKSAW JIM DUGGAN UWF WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS: THE PERFECT ALLIANCE with BABY DOLL (Arn Anderson & Bobby Eaton) UWF WORLD 6 MAN CHAMPIONS: THE SHEIKS with SKANDAR AKBAR (Hacksaw Butch Reed, Crusher Blackwell & Ken Patera) UWF WORLD TV CHAMPION: BILLY JACK HAYES Hello again everybody. Welcome to UWF & Mid-South Wrestling from Tulsa, Oklahoma and the Tulsa Convention Center here on WTBS. I am Jim Ross and my partner today is the “Big Cat” Ernie Ladd. Jim Ross is joined by the American Dream and together they hype up the UWF UNIFIED WORLD TITLE BOUT in the Cotton Bowl on May 4th at the David Von Erich Memorial. Ross really plays it off like a dire situation as it will be the Dream vs Jerry Lawler and another wrestler form the CCW. The Dream admits that it doesn’t look good but that he has seen much worse growing up in West Texas where it was hard enough just to be able to afford a meal and have decent cloths. He also goes on to explain when there are two snakes in one pit they often go after each other and that is exactly what he hopes happens here! Ross thanks Rhodes for his time and wishes the Dream luck tonight as he is about to take on the Japanese monster Rusher Kumura. MATCH DUSTY RHODES VS RUSHER KIMURA With Kimura already in the ring, Dusty begins to head to his match when all of a sudden three men wearing masks that appear like the University of Tennessee football helmet rush out and start to triple team Rhodes. They have their way with him for a minute or two before Jerry “The King” Lawler comes out. With what Lawler will later call the Tennessee Volunteer Army holding Rhodes, the King simply walks up to Rhodes a throws a fireball right in his face. The Army rushes away as Rhodes rolls around in agony and Jim Ross is screaming for a doctor. Ernie Ladd makes some of his most disgusting commetts ever here as he keeps wondering if the King is selling BBQ at his new restaurant. ------------------COMMERCIAL BREAK/PROMOS----------------- MATCH: KEVIN VON ERICH & BLACKJACK MULLIGAN VS KELLY & NICK KINISKI Before the match, Jim Ross explains the the fans that it is a real treat to have Kevin VonErich in the arena tonight and that this sharing of talent between the USWA and Mid-South Wrestling is what makes the UWF so great. Throughout the match we hear Jim Ross wondering if Blackjack is going to be one of Kevin’s partners in the upcoming 6 Man World Title Match against the Sheiks as Kevin has been very secret on this matter over the last week. Ernie Ladd says that Kevin hasn’t said much because he has no friends and he will NEVER find two partners stupid enough to tag with him against the likes of the Sheiks. As for the match, the trouble really began for the Kiniskis before the bell sounded as the attacked Kevin and BJ early. This fighting style is just up Mulligan’s ally and together with Kevin, they pummeled the Kiniski brothers. The finish came when Blackjack had Kelly in the Brain Claw and tagged in Kevin for a huge VonErich Death Leap. Kevin and Blackjack head over to the interview desk where Blackjack is screaming about how he can’t stand Hacksaw Reed, Crusher Blackwell and Ken Patera. He couldn’t think of anything lower than three Americans siding with some Arab just for money. All of a sudden, Akbar comes out and he is actually laughing. Skandar Akbar: You two are funny guys. Very funny! You sit here up on your high horse about being Patriots while Kevin here was born with a silver spoon in his mouth as Daddy runs the company and Blackjack can’t seem to stay in a place for more than a couple of months as he just runs to the money each and every time. Well it is obvious that you two Cowboys are alone and I am not surprised that you couldn’t find anyone to join you but let me remind you that on May 4th, you will be facing my 3 monsters. Boys why don’t you come out. As Reed, Patera and Blackwell come out, Kevin informs everyone that they do have another teammate and he will be here in just one second. The Sheiks laugh as they think this is all a rues. CRACK….. the sound of a bull whip is heard and the crowd pops. Jim Ross: oh bawh Gawd! It’s Stan “The Man” Hansen. With Hansen cracking the whip and Blackjack and Kevin ready to attack, Akbar and his men make a quick exit. Stan Hansen: Look at Em Run! Well in Dallas, Texas and the Cotton Bowl, these three Cowboys will have you surrounded with no place to hide. We going to rip those towels off your heads and stick em down your throat! Oh and by the way, we will also be taking back our titles! Even Ernie Ladd is now excited for this match as he and Ross hype it up as we go to break. ------------------COMMERCIAL BREAK/PROMOS----------------- Hacksaw Jim Duggan comes to the interview desk in a white tuxedo, sunglasses and his trusty 2 x 4. He starts by saying TedDibiase thinks that the cloths make the man and that the better you are dressed the more respect you are given. Duggan begins to rip the tuxedo to threads as he is screaming into the mic “that is a load of garbage!” These people here know I pour my heart and soul into each match for them. I respect them and they respect me and I will be damned if I will let a lowlife dressed in a monkey suit take my title. Dibiase’s motto is “the cloths make the man.” I have a different motto. A motto that this country has lived by. “Speak softly and carry a big stick. Dibiase, on May 4th in the Cotton Bowl you are going to know what this Big Stick feels like! MATCH: THE SOUTHERN REBELS (Buddy Roberts & Tom Prichard in Confederate flag masks) VS RANDY BABBER & JIMMY DEL RAY The Rebels enter the ring to Hank Williams Jr. and “A Country Boy Can Survive” and this has the Tulsa crowd hooked from the get go. The Rebels beat up on the jobbers here and the end comes in about 4 minutes when Rebel #1 caught Barber with a Running Bulldog. Before our next match both Ross and Ladd hype up how stacked this tag team division is getting and the Rebels have just made it even tougher. Ross rattles off the Road Warriors, The Perfect Alliance, the Tennessee Studs, The Rat Pack, the Sheiks, the Kiwi Sheepherders and now the Southern Rebels! ------------------COMMERCIAL BREAK/PROMOS----------------- MAIN EVENT JYD & BILLY JACK VS THE KIWI SHEEPHERDERS (Rip Morgan & Jonathan Boyd) This one is hot from the get go as Rip Morgan attacks Billy Jack with the flag pole before the match does start. Somehow order is restored and the ref calls for the bell and the match gets officially underway. Unfortunately for the fans, we run out of time before we get a decision here but anyone who saw it would call it a true brawl! Jim Ross: So long from Tulsa!

The NWA is becoming the three headed monster of wrestling. The way you guys work together adds such depth to your rosters and as Gordi said, you never know who is going to show up where!

Enjoyed the show. At first I thought we were going to have big controversy over who the new announcer was going to be. I remember SMW doing that with Dirty Dutch once.

2 great cards for the folks in Alabama! I think you have everyone where you want them now and with Kamala as a huge heel your roster is perfect for CCW!

UWF would like to use Stan Hansen on April 21

4/20/1985: WTBS 9:05-10:05 DALLAS, TEXAS “Yello again everybody. Welcome to USWA Wrestling, a UWF Promotion, from the world’s most famous wrestling arena, The Sportatorium in downtown Dallas, Texas. I am Lance Russell and along with “Playboy” Gary Hart. Last week we all saw a crazy finish in Memphis as the lights went out and somebody came in and Pearl Harbored Kerry Von Erich and Jerry the King Lawler was able to get the pin. Let’s bring in Fritz Von Erich and see if we can get to the bottom of this. Fritz VonErich: Well Lance, let me tell ya. I was just sick when I saw the video of that match. I was even sicker when I heard Jerry Jarrett upheld the ref’s decision when everybody knows Lawler only beat my boy after help from the outside. Gary Hart: I don’t think you have any prove of that. Fritz Von Erich: Well this is not a surprise. Gary Hart is once again going against my family. While we don’t have any evidence of what happened in the ring, we all saw Kerry have Lawler trapped in the Iron Claw. Then somehow, the lights just went out in the Mid-South Coliseim and next thing you know, the King of Memphis is on top in Memphis and we catch a glimps of some dark haired rat leaving the arena. Gary Hart: See, no prove Fritz VonErich: Well in fact we do, we have a video of that man leaving the arena and it was none other than that snake in the grass, Honky Tonk Wayne Ferris and while I can’t go back and reverse the decision as Jarrett has already upheld it, we are in DALLAS, TEXAS tonight. The crowd pops as he announces tonight’s main event which will be Kevin & Kerry Von Erich vs Jerry Lawler and Honky Tonk Man. Lance hypes this up as he takes us to our first match. Gary Hart: What a surprise, another VonErich main event! Fritz VonErich: Watch it Hart! ICEMAN PARSONS VS BUZZ TYLER A nice opening bout as the crowd really pops to a little Sister Sledge and “We Are Family.” Iceman seems to be on point here and takes the big man down with a high flying butt bump. ------------------COMMERCIAL BREAK/PROMOS----------------- UWF WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS THE PERFECT ALLIANCE (ARN ANDERSON & BOBBY EATON with Baby Doll) VS LEAPING LANNY POFFO & BRETT WAYNE SAWYER (NON-TITLE) The Perfect Alliance is showing off here against Poffo and Sawyer and they have everything under control. All of a sudden the crowd pops as Paul Ellering leads the Road Warriors to ringside and the Perfect Allliance looks like they have seen a ghost. They seem so worried that Animal and Hawk are going to rush the ring that they lose focus on their opponents. As Arn keeps on eye on the Road Warriors, Poffo sneaks up from behind and rolls up the champ for the three count. Lance Russell: Oh my! That might be the upset of the century and just think Gary, in a little over 3 weeks from now at the David VonErich Memorial, The Perfect Alliance must put their titles on the line against the Road Warriors and this time it will be NO DISQUALIFICATION. Gary Hart: For once, I agree with you Lance. I mean just the site of the Road Warriors has the Alliance shaking in their boots. They have survived the last two matches by Baby Doll helping to get her boys DQ’d but this time that won’t work! If you live anywhere near Dallas, Texas, get to the Cotton Bowl on May 4th! Wrestling history will be made. Mark my words! ------------------COMMERCIAL BREAK/PROMOS----------------- DINGO WARRIOR with GARY HART VS JOE SAVOLDI This time it is Dingo Warriors chance to use his power to scare his opponent and he delivers. Dingo is on a roll since hiring Playboy Gary Hart and he has gotten even meaner. Tonight is not different and he just pummels Savoldi all over the ring and gains the victory in under 3 minutes! Before the next match, Hart really hypes up his newest signee and this time it is Lance’s turn to agree with hos co-host. JIMMY GARVIN with NANNY SIMPSON VS JIMMY DEL RAY Now this is interesting. We all know that Garvin has lost the services of his valet for 90 days but it appears that he has quickly found a replacement. He is escorted to the ring by a beautiful, young blond who is introduced as Nanny Simpson. Lance Russell can’t help himself as he keeps telling us how easy Nanny is on the eyes. Before the match, Garvin and the young lady gives a little kissing show and then Garvin is off to work. He makes quick work of the rookie by playing it dirty at first and then finishing off Del Ray with a Brainbuster. At the interview desk, it is like Garvin remembers some things and forgets others. He is demanding a rematch against Kerry Von Erich for the USWA Title but whenever Lance brings up Precious he acts like he has no clue. The crowd pops as Precious rushes out to the interview desk but by the time she gets there Garvin and Nanny have exited stage left. As we go to break, you can almost see the steam coming from Precious’ ears! ------------------COMMERCIAL BREAK/PROMOS----------------- KEVIN &KERRY VON ERICH with Precious VS JERRY “THE KING” LAWLER & HONKY TONK WAYNE FERRIS What a main event here! We get about 2 minutes of chain wrestling as both sides prove they have some technical skill. Lawler plays it dirty here and Kevin has to fight from the bottom for a while. Eventually, he escapes the corner and tags in Kerry who goes wild. We get a little Bonzo Gonzo here with all 4 wrestlers brawling it out. All of a sudden, Precious is seen getting ready with her purse. As Lawler has Kerry backed up into the corner, Precious is about to nail Kerry in the back of the head when all of a sudden the Tennessee Stud Stable (Tommy Rich & Eddie Gilbert) rush to ringside and grab the purse and demand that she sit down. Lance Russell: See Gary, I told you that Wildfire did not intentionally cause Kevin VonErich his match two weeks ago! WHAM! Lance Russell: What is the Sam Hill is Tommy Rich doing. He just clocked Kerry with the purse! DING DING DING The ref has called for the bell but nobody can believe what we are watching. It is Lawler, Gilbert, Rich and Honkey Tonk Man just beating the snot out of the VonErichs. The crowd EXPOLDES as the cavalry comes and you want believe who the cavalry is. Dusty Rhodes and Blackjack Mulligan make the save and the tide is turned as Rhodes, Blackjack and the VonErichs are just throwing bodies . Soon the fan favorites are in charge of the ring and as Lance begins to sign off, we hear the American Dream yelling, “Don’t Mess With Texas!” Lance Russell: Folks, all roads lead to the Cotton Bowl on May 4th. So long from Dallas, Texas. Don’t forget to join us this week in Kansas City, Missouri. _________________________________________________________________________

With the spot opened by sending Steve Regal to Lutte, the UWF adds Randy Barber to a jobber spot and moves Buzz Tyler into a regular spot.

The UWF sends Steve "Mr. Electricity" Regal to Lutte for future considerations.

With the roster spot opening by sending the Guardian Angel to the WWF, the UWF adds Tiger Conway Jr.

UWF RUMORS Gary Hart is just the latest to feel the wrath of Fritz VonErich. While the problems between Fritz and Jerry Jarrett are common knowledge, the issues between Fritz and the Playboy seem to be more behind the scenes. Gary Hart, who recently joined the announcing table, has served many roles for Fritz over the years from manager to head booker to promoter. Maybe it is his constant "hammering" of Fritz's sons on national TV that has put him in hot water. Hart recently went out and signed Fatu and Tonga Kid who were booked as Jimmy Snuka's cousins and they seemed on the verge of a run at the 6 man titles. For no apparent reason, Fritz released them both. This left Hart with a stable of one... Jimmy Snuka. Fritz announced that Snuka suffered a calf injury and would be out about a month but many who have seen Superfly say he is just fine. Did Fritz just suspend him for 30 days to leave Hart'e house empty? Hart, out of frustration and desperation, went out and placed the Dingo Warrior under his services as his lone wrestler. Hart is used to having a full stable of monsters but this seems a bit below Hart's pay grade to have his only wrestler be a rookie. We will have to keep our eye on this and see if Hart adjusts his announcing style about the VonErich boys in the weeks to come!